本书是郦家驹先生的遗稿，撰写于1995年12月至1996年11月之际，郦家驹先生学识渊博，国学根底深厚，对宋史很有研究。20世纪70年代与邓广铭教授共同筹组中国宋史研究会，推动宋史研究工作的发展。本书资料丰富，内容翔实，结构合理，文笔流畅，是他多年潜心研究的力作。 ( This book is the posthumous manuscript written from December 1995 to November 1996 by of Mr. Li Jiaju. Mr. Li Jiaju was learned and had a deep study on Chinese ancient civilization and history of the Song Dynasty. In the 1970s, he and Professor Deng Guangming jointly prepared and organized the China Association for Song Dynasty Studies to promote study of the history of the Song Dynasty. This book contains an easy and fluent style with abundant information, substantial content and rational construction, being a masterpiece of his years of painstaking study.)